FeatureIDE

feature

A feature is a unit of functionality of a software system that satisfies a requirement, represents a design decision, and provides a potential configuration option. The basic idea is to describe a software system in terms of the features it provides. The goal is to construct well-structured software that can be tailored to the needs of the user and the application scenario. Typically, from a set of features, many different software systems can be generated that share common features and differ in other features. The set of software systems generated from a set of features is also called a software product line.

three success factors

structure

how is your codebase
organized

reuse

how to achieve stable and
high quality software

variation

managing variation by identifying
and designing features

IDE

Integrated Development Environment

FeatureIDE is an open-source framework for feature-oriented software development (FOSD) based on Eclipse.

problem space - plan and implement your productline

domain analysis
- capture the variabilities and commonalities of a software-system domain
- build a feature model
domain implementation
- implementing all software-systems of the domain at the same time
- mapping the code assets to features

problem space domain specific
abstraction

solution space - select features and generate products

requirements analysis
- requirements are mapped to the features of the domain
- features needed for a customized software system are selected, resulting in a configuration
software generation
- software system is automatically built
- based on a configuration and the domain implementation

solution space implementation
oriented
abstraction

timeline

network

screenshots

feature model editor

constraint wizard

configuration editor

collaboration diagram

collaboration outline